WE CAN BE DIFFERENT as
to race, color, values that the world gives us. Our stories may have been woven
with many different aspects. Our past may contain sorrows and many joys. Other
experiences may have been events rooted in our culture. Others may be ways to
look at life and face the challenges of living ... Yes, all this is true, all
of this has its weight and has its influence, but nothing prevents them from
being equal. We all have the same values
dream the same dreams of God. We are the same people, elected or chosen, no
matter, the important thing is that we are the People of God who live in hope
even in poverty, living faith even in the community that lives in the
uncertainty of life, even if the daily struggle to survive is unique and
personal. We all have the same formula of love that makes us respect one
another along the road of life and through which we initiate our effort to weave
the brotherhood that is the root of the Kingdom of the Father. Now it's
official, La Salette is in Tanzania. It is here in Rutete, a small rural
village 45 km from the town of Bukoba, a place that abounds in bananas and goats.
After a Mass that lasted four and one half hours, which incorporated the
welcome of three La Salette Missionaries (Manuel, Aldrin and Dileesh), 197 baptisms
and 12 marriages, we have arrived among our people. We come as missionaries to announce,
with the tenderness of a mother, that there is no need to fear. We present something new from God that needs
to be told and it is to satisfy the need that we all carry in our hearts. It is this innovation that will change us in
the passing days and months, in words and with the attitude of
reconciliation. After all we are the La
Salette Family now present in another country in the world. All with the hope that there are many more
realities that make us equal than things that separate us. This week we also share photos of our new
mission. We invite you to look at these
people (photo) and feel the same joy to be here and witness this moment that I
had.